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Jeff Koons Sued by French Ad Guy for Plagiarism
Jeff Koons Sued by French Ad Guy for Plagiarism
Jeff Koons, “Fait d’Hiver” (1988) (Image courtesy of Christie’s)
At what point does artistic appropriation become copyright infringement? A Jeff Koons sculpture has reopened the 50-year-old debate.
The Naf Naf ad in question (via Naf Naf)
According to the AFP, a French adman has accused Koons of ripping off an advertisement he created in 1985 for the French clothing company Naf Naf. Franck…
In response to our “Guarding Jeff Koons” photo essay, LA-based artist Ramiro Gomez sent us this work he created this year, “Benjamin and Adela in the Jeff Koons exhibition” (2014).
(via Man Vandalizes Jeff Koons Retrospective [UPDATED])
A man briefly disrupted the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum this afternoon, splashing red paint against a wall and signing his name. He did not vandalize any artworks.
(via Have a Nice Day: Jeff Koons and the End of Art)
Gleaming in the ghost-light of fluorescent tubes, the vitrine-encased vacuum cleaners that open the Whitney Museum’s Jeff Koons retrospective are nothing short of spectacular. The rest of the work, however, with few exceptions, reveals itself to be as thin, puerile and derivative as the artist’s harshest critics would expect. But to take Koons’s art to task for the hollowness at its core is shooting fish in a barrel — a truism that leads us nowhere.
(via Another Vandal Hits Jeff Koons Retrospective)
Last night, a graffiti writer identified by the New York Times as Christopher Johnson, 33, of Manhattan, vandalized a fourth-floor wall of the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art. According to the Times, the NYPD said he was “arrested on charges of criminal mischief, making graffiti, possession of a graffiti instrument, and criminal nuisance … He was taken into custody by police after he struggled with the museum’s security guards.”
(via Jeff Koons Offers Charlie Rose Art Enlightenment)
When last we visited Charlie Rose, he was baffling Richard Serra by asking the artist hypothetical questions about being himself. Last night Rose had another Monumental Male Artist on the show, Jeff Koons — because, as Rose says, Koons is “having a moment.”
(via Material Boy: Jeff Koons at the Whitney)
Given that he’s a goliath figure in the art world whose output spans three decades, it may come as a surprise that Jeff Koons’s Whitney retrospective is the artist’s first major solo show at a New York museum.
(via Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, and the Challenge of Public Art)
As if his museum-filling Whitney retrospective weren’t enough, Jeff Koons currently has a massive sculpture on view at Rockefeller Center. “Split-Rocker,” presented by Gagosian Gallery and organized by the Public Art Fund and real estate developer Tishman Speyer, is comprised of two halves, one the recreated head of a toy pony rocker that belonged to his son, the other the head of a toy dinosaur rocker.
